Inner Mongolia has a vast territory, and Mongolian wedding ceremonies are varied, among which Erdos wedding is the most wonderful. Ordos wedding has been circulated for more than 700 years, and it still retains its ancient style and interest. With its unique national characteristics, rich flavor of life, melodious song and dance forms and warm and grand scenes, it expresses the enthusiastic pursuit of a better life and the rough, bold and kind character of the hardworking, brave and intelligent Mongolian people. Therefore, Ordos wedding is widely celebrated. This kind of wedding usually lasts for two days and is full of charming Mongolian customs from beginning to end.
I. Steps
Ordos wedding originated in ancient Mongolia and was formed in the Mengyuan period. /kloc-In the 5th century, as the Ordos Department of Mongolia entered the Ordos region, an "eight-white room" was set up to worship Genghis Khan in Gander Aobao, Ordos, and the Ordos wedding in Mongolia was circulated among the people in Ordos with its unique ritual procedures. Ordos region still retains the ceremony procedure of Ordos wedding relatively completely, and makes it develop into a ritual, standardized, customized, singing and dancing folk cultural phenomenon.
Ordos wedding has a series of specific ritual procedures and activities, such as Hada betrothal, wearing a bow, welcoming the husband, offering a toast to the sheep, asking names, unloading the neck of the sheep, matching the marriage, blessing the mother, grabbing the hat, being baptized by the flame, bowing to the parents-in-law, lifting the veil, offering tea to the bride, and returning to the door.
Second, the wedding customs
Ordos wedding still retains the custom of men marrying women. On the wedding day, there was a yurt near the man's house as a new house. Inside and outside the bag are men and women wearing bright Mongolian robes, laughing and laughing. The groom has put on new clothes and is busy preparing for the wedding reception. The bride dressed up in her yurt to welcome the groom.
The wedding procession will leave in the evening. The groom, wearing a red silk robe, a golden belt around his waist and high riding boots, accompanied by the team leader and Zhusong people, came to the Mongolian yurt under the Mani red chess pole, which symbolizes the brave spirit of the Mongolian people. Zhu Songren led the guests and sang a cheerful wedding song: "The wedding promised in Genghis Khan's era is the happiest time on the grassland. Carry out fat cattle and sheep, put on rich milk, let's have fun in this harvest season ... "After that, the wedding team rode to the bride's house with a whip.
According to traditional etiquette, the wedding team first rides horses around Haute where the bride is located. Just as he dismounted in front of the bride's yurt, relatives and friends gathered at the bride's house greeted him. Hada was picked up by the chef of the bride's house with a matchstick before the other party greeted him. At this time, the bride's relatives and friends form a half-moon circle around the bag, pretending to refuse to get married, and blocking the guests attending the wedding with ribbons. This is the so-called "zonal zoning". So the lyricist who is good at rhetoric sings Erdos folk songs and asks, "Do you close your house every day or watch us close it?" "Do you think there are too many people here, or do you think we have missed the time?" A glib bridesmaid will retort with folk songs. In this way, the two sides sang and answered, which was full of fun. It was not until the end that the bridesmaids put away the ribbons and let the wedding guests into the bags.
After entering the bag, Zhu Songren took out the bride's jewelry and clothes, invited her parents and relatives to have a look, and presented milk wine and whole sheep. After that, the bride's family held a banquet to entertain the guests attending the wedding. In the yurt, men, women and children sit together, cups and lamps are staggered, and songs are heard until late at night. When the long guest leaves, a young girl will bring a plate of sheep neck bones for the groom to break off. In order to tease the groom, bridesmaids often insert a chopstick into the neck bone of the sheep. When the groom sees through the trick and finally breaks the sheep's neck, he will share it with the bride in public to show that his whole-hearted love is locked as tightly as the sheep's neck bone.
The next day, when the bride wants to leave her family, she often tears and looks very sad. In fact, this is the custom of "crying and marrying" in Erdos wedding. At this time, Zhu Songren led the groom to "grab the bride". The girl who accompanied the bride protected the bride. The man couldn't persuade, so he squeezed into the crowd to "grab" the bride. The scene is very lively. In the end, naturally, the person who robbed relatives won.
So the bride said goodbye to her relatives, and the people who saw her off sang farewell songs. In the song, the bridesmaid puts a red veil on the bride, then rides a horse around her yurt, and then rides to the groom's house. Along the way, relatives and friends of both sides chased and played to see who arrived first. In the end, men often get home first.
After the bride dismounted, she first held a ceremony of "jumping fire" under the Marni red chess pole in front of the yurt to show her wealth. When the bride enters the yurt, undertaker should ask the groom's parents if the new wife can show her face with her head covered. After the answer, the mother-in-law unveiled several daughters-in-law, then presented gifts and gave the bride a new name. Then, the whole lamb mat began and lasted until dawn.
The next morning, the newlyweds held a farewell banquet. Everyone at the farewell party will have three drinks, then jump forward and set foot on their way home.
Third, meaning.
These ritual procedures and activities are different from those of other ethnic groups and Mongolian weddings in other regions. They are the most distinctive, attractive and grand forms of Mongolian weddings. They condensed the essence of Mongolian etiquette and customs, and became the most complete and abundant picture scroll of Mongolian national customs so far. The wedding in Ordos takes the man's marriage as the main line, which condenses the essence of the Mongolian wedding process and contains feelings in song and dance. The scene is warm and cheerful, humorous and festive, the content is healthy and the character is elegant, which highlights the national character of the Mongolian people, which is rough and bold, passionate and pays attention to etiquette. Ordos wedding integrates Mongolian traditional worship culture, sacrificial culture, court culture, food culture, costume culture, etiquette and customs, and national songs and dances. It shows the national charm, expresses people's good wishes for a happy life, and has rich and profound cultural connotations.